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North and Central America (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:

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Grenada and the southern Grenadines : Carriacou from Union, 1956 - 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham A/38
Scope and Contents

[Grenadine].

Dates: 1956 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada and the southern Grenadines : Levara, 1956 - 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham A/40
Scope and Contents

[Grenadine, probably seen from Grenada].

Dates: 1956 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada Annandale, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/47
Scope and Contents

275 x 206 mm. A view looking over hilly, wooded ground on the Annandale Estate, the largest in Grenada. Another print of the same photograph occurs in Y30771A/21.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada Cocao [cacao] Estate, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771B/3
Scope and Contents

213 x 158 mm. A view looking across hilly wooded countryside with plantation buildings in the foreground.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada : Cocao [cacao] pickers and collectors, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771B/4
Scope and Contents

208 x 154 mm. A fine group portrait of plantation workers with women at the front holding baskets. Behind them stand the male pickers who hold long poles, at the end of which are mitten-shaped knives used to cut the fruit from the tops of the trees.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada Cocoa Plantations, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/50
Scope and Contents

273 x 207 mm. A view showing the drying-rocks on a cocoa plantation. Another print of the same photograph occurs in Y30771A/27.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Fonds

Grenada estate documents, 1801 - 1802

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/15
Scope and Contents

Two documents, 1801 (3 pages) and 1802 (7 pages), regarding the transfer of land in Grenada from the Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Fleury to Alexander Campbell, Junior. One of the sureties is Alexander Campbell, the elder, presumably the plaintiff in the famous lawsuit Campbell v Hall.

Dates: 1801 - 1802
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada from Government House, 1972-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham FF/19
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1972-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada: Mural inscriptions, Anecdotes, 1908 - 1915

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/13/12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Davis had a life-long interest in the history of the West Indies and more specifically of Barbados, and this collection comprises a vast body of material gathered by him from archives in Britain, the Caribbean and Europe. He contributed many historical articles to newspapers and periodicals in British Guiana [Guyana], Barbados and the United States. His intention to compose a comprehensive history of the West Indies was frustrated by ill health. Titles and captions, including the names of...
Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada : packing cocao [cacao] for fermentation, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771B/5
Scope and Contents

153 x 209 mm. Showing two workers loading baskets of beans into wooden 'sweating boxes' where they ferment in a mixture of their own enzymes and wild yeast from two to nine days before being sun-dried.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada, Richmond Hill Fort, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771B/2
Scope and Contents

212 x 157 mm. A view looking up towards the ramparts of the Richmond Hill Fort which looks over St George's from a height of 800 feet and was formerly the headquarters of the military garrison. On the flat ground beneath the fort a cricket match is in progress.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Grenada scrap book

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 262
Scope and Contents An office desk diary for 1876, 5'' x 12½'', blank save for 22 pages of inserted press cuttings and leaflets relating to political and personal controversies in Grenada, including attacks by G.W. Williamson, a member of the Legislative Council, on various officials; criticisms of E.K. Moylan, Attorney-General, a colleague of Williamson's who was suspended in 1883; Moylan's accusations against Irving Maling, Colonial Secretary; and charges by Williamson and Francis Batt, a Member of...
Dates: 1878 - 1883
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada : sun drying cocao [cacao] beans, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771B/6
Scope and Contents

208 x 153 mm. Showing cocao beans spread out on racks similar to those used for drying copra.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grenada, western aspect of St George's, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771B/1
Scope and Contents

209 x 154 mm. A view looking down from a hillside and showing part of the harbour and town. Fort Saint George, built in the early years of the eighteenth century, stands on a small peninsula, which guards the entrance to the inland harbour (not visible in this photograph).

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grizzly Giant, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/37
Scope and Contents

43 x 64 mm.

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grizzly Giant, 9/10, 1918-10-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/213
Scope and Contents

45x 70 mm. A view of a Giant Sequoia.

Dates: 1918-10-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grizzly Giant, 9/10, 1918-10-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/235
Scope and Contents

70 x 110 mm. A view of a Giant Sequoia.

Dates: 1918-10-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/152
Scope and Contents

85 x 140 mm. A view of a Giant Sequoia.

Dates: 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Gros and Petit Pitons from south, 1971-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham AA/21
Scope and Contents

[From the air].

Dates: 1971-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grosvenor Avenue, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/270
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. Group photograph. Two women, a man and a boy, posing for the camera.

Dates: 1952
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Group at Government House, Saint Johns Antigua], 1913-03 - 1913-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/56
Scope and Contents

291 x 229 mm. A group photograph of Princess Marie Louise's party and Bell taken on the steps of Government House. The print is stamped on the reverse: 'Photograph and Copyright by José Anjo, St. John's, Antigua, B.W.I.'.

Dates: 1913-03 - 1913-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Group at Government House, St. John's], 1913-03 - 1913-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/50
Scope and Contents 218 x 281 mm. A group photograph of Princess Marie Louise's party and Bell taken on the steps of Government House. Apart from Bell and Princess Marie Louise, members of this group have not been individually identified, but probably include the following figures mentioned by Bell: Mabel Hawkes, her lady-in-waiting; Benyon, her equerry; Clowes, a friend; Alice Harrington-Stuart from St. Vincent, who also accompanied the Princess on a tour of the Gold Coast; and Mrs. Gideon Myrray, Alice...
Dates: 1913-03 - 1913-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Group at Lower Fort Garry, Winnipeg with (Sir) Patrick Ashley Cooper, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF/17
Scope and Contents

240 x 128 mm.

Dates: 1932
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Group at Peace River], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/31
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Canada. The series also contains a few slides of historical events.

Dates: 1910 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Group at Royal Canadian Mounted Police Barracks (? Regina), 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF/16
Scope and Contents

240 x 192 mm.

Dates: 1932
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).